buffhood

noun

buffhood

noun

Etymology From buff + -hood.

1

Synonym of buffery (“enthusiasm for a subject”).

  • Well beyond buffhood is the incumbent partisan of astronomy's cause at the Kodak Research Laboratories.1973, Scientific American, volume 228, page 43:
  • My auto buffhood dates from that moment. For the rest of the week I hung around the fringes of the race crowd like kids used to around Babe Ruth.1961, Esquire, volume 56, numbers 4-6, page 62:

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